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Newsletter: 28th April 2024

Fifth Sunday of Easter

Newsletter: 28th April

Fifth Sunday of Easter

17.30 VIGIL MASS

09.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00 BAPTISM

12.00 MASS
13.40 Funeral: Claire Unsworth – Agecroft Crematorium

10.00 Mass
10.30 Coffee Morning

10.00 Mass

10.00 Mass

16.30 Confession
17.30 VIGIL MASS

9.00 MASS
10.30 MASS
12.00 BAPTISM

UCM
This week’s meeting is on Wednesday 1st May at 7.30pm

DIOCESAN MASS VOCATIONS TO THE PRIESTHOOD
The Diocese of Salford’s Vocations team invites you to join our next Mass for Vocations to the Priesthood. The Mass will take place at 7.30pm on Tuesday 23rd April, at St Catherine’s Didsbury. All are very welcome to attend as we pray together for the future of the priesthood in our diocese. There is a new Vocations Team Newsletter, Please scan the QR code below for the latest updates on vocations to the priesthood and permanent diaconate in our diocese:

PIETY STALL
There is a wide range of gifts and cards including First Holy Communion Cards, Mass Cards and Baptism Cards, candles, rosary beads, crucifixes and other religious gifts now available.

CAFOD SUDAN CRISIS APPEAL 2024
Cafod.org.uk/SudanAppeal or call 0808 58 588 85. See Poster in Atrium

LAST WEEK’S COLLECTION
Last week’s collection was £604.12.

ST GABRIELS R.C. HIGH SCHOOL
70th Anniversary Platinum Celebration Saturday 29th June at 7.30p.m at The Village Hotel. Tickets £30.00 per person available via the school office. See Poster in the Atrium

DIOCESE OF SALFORD’S ANNUAL PILGRIMAGE TO WALSINGHAM
There are still a few places available for this year’s diocesan pilgrimage to Walsingham, taking place on Saturday 4th May, for both overnight and day options. If you would like to join, please fill out a booking form, available at www.dioceseofsalford.org.uk/walsingham-2024 or you can get in touch by calling 0161 817 2214

DIOCESAN PILGRIMAGE TO LOURDES IN OUR CENTENARY YEAR
Led by Bishop John Arnold, will take place between 26th July and 1st August. Find out more and book online >

SACRAMENT OF CONFIRMATION MEETING
There will be a meeting on Thursday 16th May at 7p.m.for parents and children in preparation for the sacrament of Confirmation in the Atrium at St Mary’s Church. Would children in Year 8 who attend either St Monica’s or St Gabriel’s who have completed their Confirmation Catechesis with Sister Linda and been given a form please return to Father Brady A.S.A.P. Thank you. Confirmations will be celebrated at St Bernadette’s, Church in Whitefield on Thursday 6th June 2024 at 7.00pm.

MESSAGE FROM PEGGY (MARGARET) BAILEY
A big thank you to everyone who sent Mass Cards, Get well Cards and lovely kind messages to get well soon. Thank you for your visits to hospital and my home, it meant so much to me. Holy Mass will be said for all of you. Love and God Bless.

STAY WITH US, LORD, ON OUR JOURNEY

THIS WEEK’S GOSPEL

A vine is an extraordinary plant. It can grow to a huge size, spreading over a wide area, a whole garden wall or trelliswork, from one single root, and producing a rich sap which yields grapes at the end of countless little branches. And then there is the business of pruning: cut it back thoroughly on all its many shoots and tendrils, and it seems only more determined to grow thick and strong. So the vine was the symbol of Israel, drawing from the Lord a sap which penetrated to all its shoots, and lovingly pruned by the gardener in a way which best encouraged its growth. The image was taken over by Jesus for his own community, the new Israel. Pairing with last week’s picture of the good shepherd, it is one of the greatest of Jesus’ images. It perfectly sums up the two emphases of this Sunday’s other two readings. The only source of fruitful energy for the Christian is union with and dependence on the life flowing from Christ. Without that, the branches wither and die; a trimming cut off from a vine no longer has any chance of life. The vine itself at pruning season looks stark, rough and suffering. It is in fact bursting with new life. What bits of your life need to be pruned away.

BAPTISMS Please see Fr. Brady after Mass if you would like your child to be baptised. A baptismal certificate for one of the parents must be provided as evidence of baptism in a Roman Catholic Church before a baptism date can be given. We welcome parents and children and by attending Masses at the weekend on Saturday at 5.30pm, Sunday at 9.00am or 10.00am which fulfil the Sunday obligation. All Catholics are OBLIGED to celebrate Mass on EVERY Sunday.

BAPTISM CERTIFICATE COPIES REQUESTS For those requesting copies of baptism certificate the office can be contacted initially and the certificate can be collected at any of the weekend Masses. This is also to encourage people to come to Mass.

SICK AND HOUSEBOUND If you know of anybody who would like Fr Brady to visit, could you please give him their name and address with postcode and a contact telephone number. Thank you.

MASS INTENTIONS AND NEWSLETTER INCLUSIONS The practice of requesting a Mass to be offered for loved ones, living or deceased, is a beautiful and wonderful part of our Catholic Tradition. Continuing this long-standing practice, you can remember someone who has died recently or many years ago. The Mass can also make beautiful gifts for any special occasion: birthdays, anniversaries, in thanksgiving for a prayer answered etc. You can offer an intention for anybody who is struggling with a serious illness or other difficulties of life. Please hand in any Mass Intentions and items for the bulletin before Thursday as the newsletter is printed on Friday Morning. There are Mass Intention Envelopes provided on the table in the Atrium. Please provide a contact number with Mass Intentions so that any discrepancies can be resolved. Thank you.

OUR LADY’S LAMP AND THE SANCTUARY LAMP These burn for seven days. Please place any intentions in an envelope with £5 in the Mass Offerings Box in the Atrium.

MASSES AND PRAYERS RECEIVED THIS WEEK

Lately Dead
Mary Mc Dermott, Jean Doyle.

Anniversary
Zofia Krzyworaczka, Rose Anne O’Sullivan.

Birthday Memory
Anthony and Anne McGuiness. Anne McCullaugh.

Sick
David James, Eileen and Kevin Gibney, Sophie Seddon.

Other
Intentions of the Chiodo Family,
Parishioners at St Mary’s Church,
A Special Intention.

This week the Sanctuary Lamp burns for:

The people of Sudan.

This week Our Lady’s Lamp burns for:

Sophie Seddon.

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